Lexicographical Neighbors of Schanse
Literary usage of Schanse
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Among Boers and Basutos: The Story of Our Life on the Frontier by Fanny A. Barkly (1894)
"The rebels charged us repeatedly and got within fifty yards of the schanse, some
of them. There are three dead horses of theirs in Hawkins's garden, ..."
2. Military Topography for the Mobile Forces: Including Map Reading, Surveying by Clarence Osborne Sherrill (1910)
"Denkmal—Memorial (statue or anything else). Steinbruch, Stbr.—Quarry. Grube—Pit,
hole. Felsen—Rock. Alte schanse—Old (abandoned) trench (rifle pit). ..."
3. A Narrative of the Boer War: Its Causes and Results by Thomas Fortescue Carter (1896)
"The cannon were not brought within range, but fired upon our men from the camp
when they stormed the last schanse. I have now so much to do that I cannot ..."
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